Pushing on policymaking theory: Understanding the contemporary efforts to stymie change using a racialized policymaking framework

From threatening protestors to cutting diversity office funding on college campuses, one contemporary brand of policymaking has overtly sought to undermine social justice efforts in higher education. Current popular policymaking theories, however, are inadequate to understand this phenomenon, as they undertheorize the role of racialized power in policymaking – e.g., the racialized network of policy elites and their core beliefs.

• Awilda Rodriguez
• Charles H.F. Davis III
• KC Deane
• racialized policymaking
• racial equity
• higher education
• higher ed
• Education Policy Initiative